Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste

by Jonathan Gray

Book Overview

Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do

The study and discussion of media is replete with talk of fans, loves, stans, likes, and favorites, but what of dislikes, distastes, and alienation?

Dislike-Minded draws from over two-hundred qualitative interviews to probe what the media's failures, wounds, and sore spots tell us about media culture, taste, identity, representation, meaning,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479809985
• ISBN13: 9781479809981
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"